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Shop assistant charged with CBT involving RM114,000

Shop assistant charged with CBT involving RM114,000

New Straits Times20 hours ago

KOTA BHARU: A shop assistant was today charged with 10 counts of criminal breach of trust for allegedly failing to hand over RM114,630.80 to a company 10 years ago, when she was a clerk there.
Bibi Kasiran Mohamad, 50, claimed trial for all 10 charges allegedly committed between January and October 2015 at a ticket counter at the Lembah Sireh Bus Terminal, before Sessions Court judge Zulkifli Abllah.
She was charged under Section 408 of the Penal Code, which carries a jail term of between one and 14 years, whipping and a fine, upon conviction.
Deputy public prosecutor Ahmad Faiz Fitri Mohamad suggested the court impose a bail of RM5,000 for each charge.
However, the accused's lawyer, Muhammad Khairul Azwan Azhan, sought the court to impose a bail amount of RM15,000.
He reasoned that his client, the accused, was currently employed as a pastry shop assistant and is a widower after her husband's death last year.
"My client is only paid RM45 a day, besides taking care of her elderly parents and has no previous criminal record," he said.
The court set RM18,000 for bail with one surety.

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